A recent nationwide study improves our understanding of the effects of long COVID on pregnant patients. Long COVID refers to a wide range of health problems that people experience after being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Neuropsychiatric symptoms can...
A recent Pew survey of U.S. teens found that nearly half of all respondents were victims of cyberbullying, where technology is used to cause harm or pain. Troublingly, studies are now linking cyberbullying to the development of psychiatric conditions in children and...
“Long COVID” refers to long-term effects from infection by the COVID virus. Long COVID can affect nearly every organ system, and patients can present with a host of symptoms. In terms of neuropsychiatric symptoms, patients commonly report intense fatigue, brain fog,...
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by progressive memory loss. Symptoms eventually become so severe in typical cases that people with Alzheimer’s require full time care. Women are at a higher risk of developing dementia than...
Researchers are exploring diet as a cause of depression, or at least a factor in its development. A recent study of ultraprocessed foods, such as sugary snacks and ready-to-eat meals, found a statistically significant association between depression and the ingestion...
For many years, scientists have been studying the brains of people with neuropsychiatric conditions. A recent study from Nature Neuroscience has shed more light. Using MRI scans from multiple cities, researchers evaluated the brains of people with six neuropsychiatric...
